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Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
82년생 김지영Cho Nam-joo traces Kim Jiyoung’s life from childhood to motherhood, showing how gender bias accumulates across family, education, work, and care while testing the limits of a case-file narrative.
- Gender Norms
- Women's Work
- Family Liberation
Staying with the Trouble
Donna J. Haraway’s feminist guide to multispecies life, reproductive freedom, colonial histories, care, and making kin on a damaged earth.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
A landmark collection by survivors, organizers, and community workers asking how social justice movements can confront intimate violence and build accountability without relying on police and prisons.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
The Vegetarian
채식주의자The Vegetarian is a Man Booker International Prize-winning novel by Korean author Han Kang. It tells the story of Yeong-hye, an ordinary housewife who, in order to reject human violence, decides to stop eating meat and eventually wants to transform herself into a tree. It is a fable about female bodily autonomy, refusal of social norms, and the quest for a purely 'harmless' existence in a violent world.
- Body Politics
- Violence Against Women
- Mental Health
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
INCITE! centers women of color to connect interpersonal violence with policing, colonialism, militarism, and reproductive control.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Carceral Feminism
It Ends with Us
A brave and heartbreaking contemporary novel exploring the thin line between love and violence, and the courage required to break the cycle of domestic abuse spanning generations. Based on a true story, it is a tale of difficult choices, resilience, and the power of self-love.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Women's Literature
- Women's Rights
Convenience Store Woman
コンビニ人間Convenience Store Woman is an Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. The protagonist, Keiko Furukura, is a 36-year-old woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years and has no interest in society's expectations for women - marriage, children, a 'real' career. With dark humor, the novel sharply questions society's definition of 'normal' and its oppression of women who don't conform.
- Gender Norms
- Body Politics
- Cultural Critique
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.
- Migration
- Domestic Labor
- Labor Rights
Rape During Civil War
Dara Kay Cohen compares 91 civil wars and three field cases to examine how forced recruitment, armed-group cohesion, and wartime rape reports relate - and where that explanation reaches its limits.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- War and Peace
- Feminist Security Studies
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Mona Eltahawy connects control over women’s bodies at home, in public, and through the state, then asks what a sexual revolution can mean without flattening the Middle East into one story.
- Arab Feminism
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Politics
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
Liberating ‘motherhood’ from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
SCUM Manifesto
Valerie Solanas's infamous 1967 manifesto is a scathing, satirical, and radical feminist text that calls for the elimination of the male sex and the overthrow of the government.
- Radical Humor
- Radical Feminism
- Satire
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Monique W. Morris examines how school discipline, policing, and neglected trauma push Black girls out of education and toward confinement.
- Black Feminism
- Education Equality
- Race and Gender
Globalization and Militarism
Cynthia Enloe follows sneaker subcontracting, gendered humiliation in detention and camouflage in wardrobes. The second edition gives readers a way to trace the different routes by which militarism enters everyday life.
- Militarism
- Globalization
- Labor Rights
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India
This foundational work of ecofeminism reveals how the development paradigm threatens survival itself through violence against nature and women. Through the experiences and perspectives of rural Indian women, Shiva demonstrates how patriarchal development models simultaneously destroy ecosystems and marginalize women, arguing for women's central role as biodiversity custodians in ecological regeneration.
- Ecofeminism
- Climate Justice
- Decolonial Feminism
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
She argues that femininity is not inherently weak but is devalued in patriarchal society.
- Trans Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Connecting liberation movements across different eras and regions, from abolitionism to Palestine, demonstrating the importance of intersectional analysis in contemporary social movements.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Anti-Feminism Studies
The Argonauts
Contemporary queen of memoir-theory fusion Maggie Nelson turns her lens on identity, desire, and family. This instant classic recounts Nelson's relationship with her partner, artist Harry Dodge. Through intimate documentation of family life and pregnancy, Nelson presents a complex portrait of modern queer motherhood with blurred boundaries.
- Queer Theory
- Trans Feminism
- Emotional Labor
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
This groundbreaking work challenges male-centric theories of moral development, proposing an alternative model of moral reasoning based on care, relationships, and responsibility. By listening to women's voices, Gilligan discovered the 'ethics of care' as a different moral voice, fundamentally transforming psychology's, ethics', and feminist theory's understanding of moral development.
- Ethics of Care
- Feminist Psychology
- Gender Politics
Earth Democracy
Vandana Shiva extends democracy to land, seeds, water, and community, showing how corporate globalization turns the commons of life into property.
- Climate Justice
- Ecofeminism
- Political Participation
My Life on the Road
A memoir by legendary feminist activist Gloria Steinem, chronicling her decades of travel and the conversations she held with the people she met along the way. It beautifully illustrates how moving, listening, and organizing can transform the world and shape the self.
- Women's History
- Social Movements
- Women's Rights
Soil Not Oil
Vandana Shiva connects industrial agriculture, fossil fuel dependence, and climate crisis, centering small farms, seed diversity, and food sovereignty.
- Climate Justice
- Food Sovereignty
- Ecofeminism
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Trans and queer accounts expose how policing and prisons enforce gender binaries, linking gender liberation with prison abolition.
- Trans Feminism
- Prison Abolition
- Queer Theory
The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Translated from Marathi by Maya Pandit, Urmila Pawar's memoir turns basket-making, family memory, and movement work into Dalit feminist social history.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Women's Literature